Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-01-22 Thread rgheck
\bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl" "quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl" "self-insert \"" to \bind

Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-01-22 Thread rgheck
Paul Johnson wrote: I've seen people asking for a simple way to enter accents and graves, and the discussion here goes off into a configuration of the keyboard and the X server. I think you are misleading people a little bit. I'm here to remind users that reconfiguring to use COMPOSE is unneces

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello David, You might be interested in using Sweave. There, you only need to write the code. No export - import. Recent threads on Sweave contain all the pertinent information. Basically, you need to use the noweb class, tweak the preferences file (specify the converters specific to R) and write

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
> > I produce most of my statistical graphics in R and move them into LyX > > floats. > > I've been exporting them as JPGs from R. Is there a better format that plays > > well with LyX/LaTeX? Any suggestions are appreciated. > > > > - > > > > If you want EPS output in R, be aware that you nee

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Bo Peng
On Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two > > LyX documents? > > http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? Bo

Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar

2008-01-22 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: Hello, I've been lurking in the ml for a while. I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. This to avoid the extremely annoying problem of movin

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Ken wrote: > Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two > LyX documents? http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Jürgen

easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
I've seen people asking for a simple way to enter accents and graves, and the discussion here goes off into a configuration of the keyboard and the X server. I think you are misleading people a little bit. I'm here to remind users that reconfiguring to use COMPOSE is unnecessary, at least if you

Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 14, 2008 11:18 AM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the > second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm > thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is > for me. Gentoo would b

Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 13, 2008 3:13 PM, David Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I produce most of my statistical graphics in R and move them into LyX floats. > I've been exporting them as JPGs from R. Is there a better format that plays > well with LyX/LaTeX? Any suggestions are appreciated. > > - > If y

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Bo Peng
> > Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two > > LyX documents? You can file a feature request (someone else might have done it) to compare two documents and produce a document with revision markers. I have occasionally though of this feature but there seems to be no

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 22, 2008 11:59 AM, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two > LyX documents? > Open both files in Emacs. Then choose tools/compare and you get an awesome point by point display of differences (output from diff, I th

Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Ben Blamey
Never used Notepad++ but I would suggest vim diff. I guess its similar. For many files, perhaps use the diff program instead, either on the lyx files themselves, or a text export of them, which if you could easily get from lyx with an AutoIT script (for windows). Ben Ken wrote: Hi all,

Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar

2008-01-22 Thread muzzle
Hello, I've been lurking in the ml for a while. I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. This to avoid the extremely annoying problem of moving the window every time the highlighted

Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents

2008-01-22 Thread Ken
Hi all, Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? The only method I can think of is to use Notepad++ to view the differences. If you have any other/better suggestions I would be grateful if you would please share them. Kind regards, Ken

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-22 Thread G. Milde
On 22.01.08, Helge Hafting wrote: > Les Denham wrote: >> On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: >>> I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing >>> via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that >>> is necessary for using microtype. On my system, LyX uses pdf

Re: pdfLaTeX 'not responding'

2008-01-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Joel Pedro wrote: Thanks for the advice Paul. I am using MiKTeX. I tried running pdflatex from DOS prompt. This works ok - much faster than with LyX. I dont get any useful diagnostic. Does this suggest the problem is with LyX? How do I determine if font generation is hosted on my machine? Sor

Re: left justify floats?

2008-01-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Les Denham wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't support microtype directly so there is "no need"

Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?

2008-01-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul A. Rubin wrote: The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols. (Note that I'm including Mac users as foreigners, since the inputenc package supposedly addresses them as well). When I was younger, everyone used ASCII and d

Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3

2008-01-22 Thread Andreas K .
Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import > but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it > (using File -> Import -> LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about > unrecognized commands and such (p